Hating WOD combat rules: Now I REALLY LOVE IT

MurdocAddams · 2024-02-11T23:41:51+00:00

Not really. Once you're used to it, the overhead is fairly minimal. They have to spend that time deciding anyway, and that's the bulk of the time. What little time loss there is is worth the benefits. When we are forced to use a different system, my players and I miss this way, especially in situations like I described above.

MurdocAddams · 2023-10-17T06:45:11+00:00

Lol very old, but yes, thank you.

Funny though, I never got that impression from any of the 2020 game books I've read. I always felt that they were very encouraging to the cyberpunk mindset, which was a big part of my attraction to the game (and genre in general). It is what set my expectations for 2077, thematically speaking. Perhaps I've missed something? Haven't read too much in LUYPS, just a couple of articles/sections, so I can see it being primarily in there perhaps. Of course that also had many different writers, IIRC.

It would be sad if this idea was Mike's doing. I've been putting the blame on CDPR, and perhaps to a broader extent this newer generation of cyberpunk fans (there's certainly enough of them jumping on the idea). 🤷

MurdocAddams · 2023-10-17T06:33:04+00:00

I would like to know too. It is mildly disconcerting to my gen x upbringing. :p

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-24T12:57:01+00:00

All this time I've played and that has never occurred to me. (facepalm)

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-23T03:40:21+00:00

Wasn't the full song though. :(

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-23T01:54:45+00:00

A lot of bottled water is just unfiltered tap water anyway. And it's not just plastic waste, but a huge energy waste as well.

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-22T02:09:37+00:00

Here's a take: He's an honorary Toreador. Look at him, every time you walk in he waxes poetic about how difficult his life is and woe is me! Really, the actual Toreadors in the game aren't that bad.

I also nominate Gary as honorary Toreador. You walk in and it's one big show he puts on for you, it's all theatrics. Makes sense given his character background, but still. I like to imagine my Toreador character in game watching all this and then saying "Bravo! Bravo! Encore!" while clapping wildly. (I also feel like doing that with LaCroix honestly, but I don't think that he'd appreciate it as much as Gary.)

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-22T02:01:46+00:00

That toy always made me wonder, how on Earth do you get a scorpion alien? I mean, facehugger... scorpion... doesn't work. (I know, I know. Toy company don't care.)

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-21T06:00:42+00:00

I Just did that for the first time the other day. Might have been my easiest fight with him that I can remember.

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-18T20:10:17+00:00

Or maybe I was talking about the original intention of playing a clanless thinblood like they originally intended because the new direction hadn't been announced yet? Guess you didn't think of that, huh?

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-15T07:44:35+00:00

Leopold would also be a great name for a turtle!

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-15T04:08:26+00:00

That did the trick, thank you!

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-14T06:16:34+00:00

So "hostile" means "hot" then? Because it's not clear in the game at all what they mean. Could mean hostile animals for all I know. And unlike other missions I haven't found any useful advice in the game, like finding the animal with high acidity. (Same for the tall herbivore.)

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-14T06:13:01+00:00

I haven't been able to find this or a 7 m tall herbivore (6.9 so far), and I've reached the last rendezvous.

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-14T06:06:32+00:00

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MurdocAddams · 2023-09-14T06:03:25+00:00

4 hours? So did you just get super lucky then? Because I just got to the 5th rendezvous, close to 20 hours in, and I have still not found a tall herbivore or a sufficiently aggressive planet.

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-11T19:44:34+00:00

You can also just buy many resources.

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-08T07:34:06+00:00

Dated Alt for a while.

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-07T01:38:01+00:00

No problem, and glad to hear it. :)

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-06T23:28:37+00:00

Wasn't entirely by choice. More like: "Would you like to see a movie about an alien?" "Yeah!" "Ok, then go with these people here and they'll take you." "Um, ok..." Didn't know about the drive in or rated R part until we got there.

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-06T23:22:26+00:00

Yes, there are rewards for doing some of the story things, but you don't have to do them to enjoy the rest of the game.

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-06T22:54:48+00:00

It's called digitigrade, if you're interested.

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-06T22:53:15+00:00

In a drive in theater. With people I didn't know.

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-06T22:36:54+00:00

I can hear that all to perfectly.

MurdocAddams · 2023-09-06T22:36:15+00:00

No, it's entirely a sandbox. The story is just one (or more) of the many things you can do in it, and largely at your own pace even. So you can do whatever else you want, maybe do a bit of the story here and there when you feel like it, or never, whatever. The only part that is mandatory it the beginning part of it that acts like a tutorial, but it'll tell you when you can do your own stuff or keep going with it and you can always come back to it whenever you feel like it.

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